Word: direness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...question the wisdom of why to take on a project of this magnitude when you're in dire financial straits," Kim said...
Decisions of justice have to be reached through careful consideration of the circumstances and the possible consequences. When Rabin deported the Hamas activists, he knew that the consequences of not taking severe actions could be dire. Indeed, most of the Hamas leaders behind the recent terrorist attacks were among the 400, former deportees. Rabin's decision to deport the 400 Hamas terrorists was firmly rooted in reason. His decision to allow them back into Israel was a surrender to emotion...
...letter, it turned out, had not been sent by ordinary aid recipients but by their self-appointed leaders, former members of Rwanda's extremist Hutu government that orchestrated the death of more than 500,000 Tutsi and moderate Hutu. It was only the latest in a series of increasingly dire threats by these leaders aimed at eliminating outside interference in the camps and tightening their control of food distributions. The power play has presented those responsible for the relief effort with a dilemma: Should they cease their humanitarian work and put at risk the lives of innocent refugees, or accept...
...administrators say a Kennedy defeat would have such dire consequences for Harvard that they have barely considered the possibility...
...further still, that these barbarians are not at the gates but are largely in charge of American education and the nation's debased institutions of public discourse. His The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages (Harcourt Brace; 578 pages; $29.95) is thus, in part, a dire prophecy of the end of civilization as we know it: "I realize that the Balkanization of literary studies is irreversible...